[DMCForum] Re: unions and abestos

["Mike" <mcquinlan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If I owned a business and had to pay someone $40 an hour to turn 
bolts, I'd move my jobs to Mexico too.  

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "andy" <andydandy777@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> I don't usually express my thoughts on things but today I have 
read 
> two posts that are so far off base I can't let them go by. A 
> statement was made by someone today that thanks to the unions  the 
> car business went to Mexico, this is true. Our unions are guilty 
of 
> making the auto companies pay a saving wage, with health insurance 
> and a retirement plan to their workers, is this wrong? Let say it 
> takes 500 hours to build a car with all of it parts, the union at 
$40 
> per hour this is with benefits and the Mexicans with $4 per hour, 
do 
> the math. Greed is what drove these jobs to Mexico, not the 
unions, 
> did any car company lower the price of their cars when the went to 
> Mexico, NO. once more I say GREED not the union lost us our jobs.
> Someone said no American but workers in the manfactruing of 
Abestos 
> had ever died of exposure, this is so far off base it's funny. Old 
> Boilermakers die everday due to the abestos they inhaled for years 
> building power plant, I am a union member and a Boilermaker and 
proud 
> of both, thanks this was my two cents.
> Andy Blackmon I am also proud of my Delorean that I have owned 
since 
> 1982. 3513

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